Linux virus (was RE: [plug] Windows Briefing)

[Christian]

Greg Mildenhall wrote:

> You are so very right. OK guys, we're all gonna have to write our own
> compilers from now on. It's heaps'o'fun, trust me. But what will we use to
> compile it? Obviously to be secure we will have to write it in machine
> code, (can't trust the assembler, either) and because we don't trust any
> of our editors, we shall have to install it onto a floppy with a magnet.
> Obviously we can't read the disk with software someone else wrote, so it
> will have to be a bootable disk with our own OS/compiler combination.
> Writing OS's is fun, too, so I'm told. Unfortunately, where this all
> breaks down is the BIOS code. Can you really trust your BIOS?

Now we're getting somewhere! *grin*

Regards,

Christian.

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